José Carlos Diaz Zanelli

José Carlos specializes in Latin American literature and culture, with an emphasis on Indigenous Studies and Environmental Humanities. His areas of expertise include Andean, Amazonian, and Mesoamerican literatures with special interest in forms of anticolonialism, insurgency, environmental resilience, and philosophical constructions. His book, Insurgent Veins: Indigenismo, Indigenous Literatures, and Decolonial Cracks (2026), explores the formation of Indigenous decolonial discourse in the Andes and Mesoamerica throughout the twentieth century, along with the anticolonial postulates that inspire the Latin American indigenista canon. He is also co-editor of Worlding Latin America: Corpus, Praxis, and Global Networks (2025), a book that offers a contribution to contemporary discussions in the field of Latin American critical theory and literary dialogues by incorporating understudied archives and opening new lines of inquiry from a global perspective.